Thursty
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Thursty is an adjective meaning Obsolete spelling of thirsty.
Meaning
Obsolete spelling of thirsty.
Example Sentences
All soules that be thursty bid threshe out for mawlt:
'We'm horful thursty, marm. Ee sun be 'ot out thurr!'
In 1548, during the second year of the reign of Edward VI, a London newsbook proclaimed that there was a “thursty desyer that all our kynde hath to know.”
Compare that wi' drinkin when you're thursty — either clear well-water, or sour- milk, or sma' yill, or porter, or speerits half-and-half, and then I wad say that eatin and drinkin's pretty much of a muchness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include thristy, athirst, watry, yesty, thye, hungerly.
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